So I get a call tonight from a friend and coworker of mine with a story.
He had his neighbor helping him build a fence. This neighbor is a FORMER employee. Not the sharpest tool in the drawer, hence the former status.
Dull neighbor gets in the Cat 287 and uses it to stretch the fence. He gets out, fastens the fence, cuts it, and gets back in the Cat. This is where I get a little lost. He calls my friend for help, saying he "smashed his foot with the bucket of the skid steer". Now keep in mind he is working alone, when he had been told by my friend to wait until he got there to help. My friend tells him "There is no way you can smash your own foot with the skid steer by yourself". That would be my first reaction as well, but no, we were both wrong. Seems he crawled most of the way into the cab, sat partially on the seat with his feet sticking OUT of the front of the cab (a position I could not get into even if I tried), lowered the lap bar, unlocked the hydraulics, (all the safeties WORK on the machine) and proceeded to lower the boom until he smashed his feet.ointhead Oh, I forgot to mention, doing this was easier because of the fact he got out of the machine, and then back into it while the boom was raised in the air, another no-no.
So now the neighbor has a smashed, possibly broken foot, and I guess is somewhat lucky that is all.
My question is how in the world a grown man can be so dumb?????:Banghead:Banghead:Banghead There are 3 seperate safties to make sure you can't operate this machine unless you are sitting in the seat, and to intentionally get past all of these then lower the boom onto yourself takes a special kind of stupid.
I have rarely been happier that someone no longer worked for me. He could have done that or worse on the job, but instead did it at a friend and neighbors house.
He had his neighbor helping him build a fence. This neighbor is a FORMER employee. Not the sharpest tool in the drawer, hence the former status.
Dull neighbor gets in the Cat 287 and uses it to stretch the fence. He gets out, fastens the fence, cuts it, and gets back in the Cat. This is where I get a little lost. He calls my friend for help, saying he "smashed his foot with the bucket of the skid steer". Now keep in mind he is working alone, when he had been told by my friend to wait until he got there to help. My friend tells him "There is no way you can smash your own foot with the skid steer by yourself". That would be my first reaction as well, but no, we were both wrong. Seems he crawled most of the way into the cab, sat partially on the seat with his feet sticking OUT of the front of the cab (a position I could not get into even if I tried), lowered the lap bar, unlocked the hydraulics, (all the safeties WORK on the machine) and proceeded to lower the boom until he smashed his feet.ointhead Oh, I forgot to mention, doing this was easier because of the fact he got out of the machine, and then back into it while the boom was raised in the air, another no-no.
So now the neighbor has a smashed, possibly broken foot, and I guess is somewhat lucky that is all.
My question is how in the world a grown man can be so dumb?????:Banghead:Banghead:Banghead There are 3 seperate safties to make sure you can't operate this machine unless you are sitting in the seat, and to intentionally get past all of these then lower the boom onto yourself takes a special kind of stupid.
I have rarely been happier that someone no longer worked for me. He could have done that or worse on the job, but instead did it at a friend and neighbors house.